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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
QUERIES TO MY SEVENTIETH YEAR, by WALT WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Approaching, nearing, curious Last Line: Dull, parrot-like and old, with crack'd voice harping, screeching? Subject(s): Old Age | |||
Approaching, nearing, curious, Thou dim, uncertain spectre -- bringest thou life or death? Strength, weakness, blindness, more paralysis and heavier? Or placid skies and sun? Wilt stir the waters yet? Or haply cut me short for good? Or leave me here as now, Dull, parrot-like and old, with crack'd voice harping, screeching? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT EIGHTY I CHANGE MY VIEW by DAVID IGNATOW FAWN'S FOSTER-MOTHER by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE DEER LAY DOWN THEIR BONES by ROBINSON JEFFERS OLD BLACK MEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A WINTER ODE TO THE OLD MEN OF LUMMUS PARK, / MIAMI, FLORIDA by DONALD JUSTICE AFTER A LINE BY JOHN PEALE BISHOP by DONALD JUSTICE TO HER BODY, AGAINST TIME by ROBERT KELLY SONG FROM A COUNTRY FAIR by LEONIE ADAMS A BROADWAY PAGEANT by WALT WHITMAN |
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